Is life so wretched? Isn't it rather your hands which are too small your vision which is muddled? You are the one who must grow up.

Dag Hammarskjold
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  1. Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find his right road.

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  3. Time goes by: reputation increases ability declines.

  4. There is a point at which everything becomes simple and there is no longer any question of choice because all you have staked will be lost if you look back. Life's point of no return.

  5. Only one feat is possible: not to have run away.

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